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Youth Group Volunteering – Biological Research – March 2025
We had a lovely group of young teenagers and two group leaders from Canada volunteer on our biological research station project in March of 2025. Below you can read about their experiences 🙂 After a week of volunteering at Reserva Playa Tortuga, we asked the kids a...
Giorgia and Pablo – Biological Research – March 2025
Giorgia and Pablo are a sweet couple from Italy who came to volunteer with us on our biological research project in Ojochal in March of 2025. They filled out our review questionaire which you'll find below.Please let us know how we did at green life volunteers - did...
ChloĂ© – Veterinary Intern – December 2024
Chloé volunteered with us on the Veterinary Internship in Puerto Jimenez in December of 2025. This is her review. Veterinarian Dr. Fallas and ChloéMy experience as a volunteer at Osavet in Puerto Jimenez has been an incredible experience. From day one, I had the...
Rosa’s Review – Turtle Conservation – January 2025
Rosa volunteered with us on the GLV Turtle Conservation Project in Ostional in January of 2025. This is her review. A five star experience with Green Life Volunteers! I had an incredible time during my week in Costa Rica with the Green Life Volunteers turtle...
Axel – Wildlife Rescue Center – August 2024
This review is from Axel's parents who helped set up his volunteering for the Wildlife Rescue Center in Alajuela in August 2024.We sent our 18 year old son to the Wildlife Sanctuary and Rescue center for a week stay. Once past the little home sickness, he had a blast...
Joe’s Review – National Park Project – March 2019
Joe and his girlfriend Lila volunteered together in March 2019 on our National Park Project, in Piedras Blancas National Park. They spent two amazing weeks on the project, and send us this beautiful review: 'We had an amazing time at Piers Blancas National Park...
Lila’s Review – National Park Project – March 2019
Lila and her boyfriend Joe spend 2 weeks in Piedras Blancas National Park, and loved it. Here is her review. "We spent 2 weeks volunteering in Piedras Blancas National Park in March 2019, based at El Bonito ranger station. We were doing things like clearing trails...
Jamie’s Review – Solar Power Project 2018
Jamie from the USA participated in our Solar Power Project - A Hands On Workshop in 2018. My two week excursion with Green Life Volunteers exceeded my expectations. Janina's organization, enthusiasm, kindness, and humor throughout the trip united the diverse group of...
Bird Conservation Volunteer
Would you like to help a Bird Conservation NGO on the Osa Peninsula with their research and education all around the topic of exotic birds? Then you should volunteer on our Bird Conservation project!
Solar Power Project – A Hands On Workshop
Are you interested in solar energy? Would you like to learn how to install Solar Panels and at the same time do something great for a small rural community in Costa Rica? Are you happy to meet other like-minded people and hang out with a group? Then this project is...
Environmental Education Project Report
Morgan’s Blog – Morgan is a 27 year old volunteer from Canada, who is working for two months on our Environmental Education program in Puerto Jimenez, She's an environmental sciences teacher in Canada with classroom experience. This is her first blog...
Samantha’s Review & Blog – Biological Research Center
Samantha participated in our Biological Research Project for 1 month in July - August of 2016. This is her write up about her experiences: "It’s been about 2 and a half weeks since I got to Costa Rica, and I’m already dreading going home in just 11 days! I chose to...
Volunteer abroad: The benefits of flying the coop
Article written by Green Life Volunteers alumni volunteer Cassie Daigle. Original Article here in the Red and Black. The desire to travel resides in a lot of us as undergraduates, stemming from that nagging voice in our heads reminding us that following graduation, we...
Turtle Volunteer Blog – Cassie
It is quite the week this week for turtle nesting. The past three nights I've walked this week there has been a turtle every single time that has nested. Two nights ago, we were with one turtle for about thirty minutes before we realized there was another one not even...
The beauty of the Osa Peninsula
Hi everyone, We are working a lot on the website, movies, new projects, handbooks and a lot more, but we also need some relax time. And our relax time was next week. Some friends or Carlies were in Costa Rica and we did a lot of things in the Osa Peninsula. We went to...
Arboretum visit
Saturday 16 January we visited the Arboretum. Arboretum means a collection of trees, and now I have been there, I can confirm that it is a collection of trees. When we were there, we got a tour through the Arboretum by Juan. Juan told us a lot about the Arboretum and...
Business trip
Hi everyone! On the 28th of December all staff members of Green Life Volunteers went on a little business trip! We visited three new projects Green Life Volunteers will offer in the future. On the first day of business trip we visited a Biological Research...
Christmas Bird Counting Hike
Last Saturday we went to the Christmas Bird Counting Hike in Puerto Jimenez. The Bird Counting group we participated was at Osa Interactive Gardens. The hike started at 05.30 o’clock, which we find very early. First we got an introduction and an explanation about what...
New movie for the Environmental Education Project!
Hi everyone, I would like to inform you about the projects that I have been working on lately. The project that I have been working on is EducaOsa. EducaOsa is an organization which provide environmental education to the rural schools around Puerto Jimenez. I went...
Help wanted for Dobby
Hi everyone, I will give you an update about the two rescued dogs Mila and Dobby which you maybe remember from the last blog. Mila and Dobby are both rescued by a project of Green Life Volunteers, the 'Dog Rescue Project'. Mila has been transferred to a new loving...